With more than 70 three- to five-year-olds from two different providers sharing the same room, outdoor area and teachers, getting to know each child intimately is a challenge. However, it is one that Nursery World’s Nursery of the Year is able to meet through a ‘highly sophisticated’ model of good practice that ‘works seamlessly’, according to Nursery World Awards chief judge Wendy Scott.
Spring Bensham, an Outstanding 55-place setting, shares its premises with Bensham Grove Community Nursery School, which is based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and offers sessions to up to 54 children, morning and afternoon.
The building has a large open space downstairs, which opens out onto a well-designed garden that the children can access freely. Upstairs are nursery children aged from six months to three years. The three-year-olds then access a school place in the term after their third birthday and join the other three- to five-year-olds in the space below.
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